Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: southern-california-regional-rail-authority.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
103 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
66 filings
$2M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
118th Congress
Railway Safety Act of 2023
7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 650114th CongressRailroad Safety and Positive Train Control Extension Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Katie Kachel
Chambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC
Covered position: Special Assist. to the Chief of Staff, Sen. Mikulski
50 filingsthrough 2021
Donald John NordenChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLCCovered position: Legal Counsel, Office of Sen. Exon50 filingsthrough 2021
Dave Kirk RameyKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. Ken Calvert (1993 - October 2016) - COS39 filingsthrough 2026
Ben MillerKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. George Miller (2003-2012) - Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff; Rep. Huffman (2013-2020) - Chief of Staff22 filingsthrough 2026
Katie KachelBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Senator Barbara Mikulski (2003-2005)22 filingsthrough 2026
Donald John NordenBlank Rome Government Relations22 filingsthrough 2026
